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Branch House
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'''''Branch House''''' Located at 2501
Monument Avenue (Richmond, Virginia) Monument Avenue in
Richmond, Virignia, this 27,000 sq. ft. mansion was commissioned in
1916 by
John Kerr Branch Jr.. The house is the work of architect
John Russell Pope, and was finally completed in
1919. The house was designed in the
Tudor-Jacobean style and remains one of a few works by Pope in which the original interior has survived. In
1953 the Branch family gifted the house to the
United Givers Fund, which, in turn, sold the mansion to Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance in
1982. The house was once again sold in
2003, this time to the Virginia Center for Architecture Foundation. In
2005, the
Virginia Center for Architecture opened, and provides exhibitions, tours, and lectures on architecture.
References
''The Virginia Landmarks Register''. ed. Calder Loth
External links
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Virginia Center for Architecture
